CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – August 04, 2008 – MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is pleased to announce the release of the new GX620/GX720 Gaming Notebook. Winner of a Best Choice Award at COMPUTEX 2008, the GX620 ‘s Blu-Ray player, MSI’s VIVID Image Enhancement Technology, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 3D graphics card and Dolby^® 7.1 digital surround sound capabilities guarantee the ultimate gaming or movie watching experience. This powerful notebook is housed in a sleek yet tough alloy case with strong red accents, and features user friendly quick launch touch sensors.

These sensors, located just above the keyboard, are used to activate both MSI’s exclusive Turbo Drive Engine Technology and the new ECO Engine Management function. The Turbo Drive Engine allows user’s to overclock the GX620/GX720, increasing the speed of the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor by as much as 15%. This allows the notebook to run smoother and enhances the gaming experience. MSI’s new ECO Engine, allows users to alternate between 5 different operating modes to conserve battery life.  By simply pressing the quick launch sensor, users can choose Gaming, Movie, Presentation, Office, or Turbo Battery mode to fit their power consumption needs.

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Keep those CPUs cool, that’s the main thing most people worry about with their computers, and for the most part the stock coolers do a decent job, but there are those of use that desire to keep our CPUs running cooler than the stock solution can provide. We all know that the cooler the CPU is the longer it will last, at least theoretically, and of course if the CPU is cooler there is always room for a bit of overclocking as well to eek out a bit more performance.

Up on the review block today I’ve got one from Xigmatek, it’s the SD964 HDT CPU cooler, not a real fancy name, but then again what’s in a name right? It really doesn’t matter what it’s called as long as it performs! The SD964 is a small heatpipe style CPU cooler, at least in comparison to others on the market today, but it is by no means small in terms of performance. The SD964 dominates over most others out there in our tests on both C2D and C2Q CPUs…
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Title: ASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12690
Summary: “Over the past few months we have looked at a few different Intel X48 motherboards and all of these motherboards bearing Intel’s latest chipset have worked quite well with Linux. Among these motherboards have been the ASUS P5E3 Premium, Super Micro C2SBX+, and Gigabyte X48T-DQ6. These X48 motherboards have been expensive, but now some of the budget manufacturers are introducing models at a lower cost. For just under $200 USD, ASRock has introduced the X48TurboTwins-WiFi. The ASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi pairs Intel’s X48 with the ICH9R Southbridge and offers a few extra features such as eSATA, integrated 802.11g WiFi, and IEEE-1394 Firewire.”

NEW CONTENT (Storage) - VOX V1 500GB USB and eSATA External HDD

QUOTE: “Aaah, storage. As far as I’m concerned, you can’t have enough of it. Be it in a server or on the go, you can’t really ever have too much hard drive space. Today we’re taking the time to have a look at a hard drive caddie from a company called VOX.

We will today have a look at how the VOX V1 goes up against another caddie we have with us and also against one of our Samsung 1TB drives that is already installed in our system. Before we get into that though, let’s have a look at the package VOX has put together along with a closer look at the caddie itself.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1528/vox_v1_500gb_usb_and_esata_external_hdd/index.html

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The TweakTown Team
http://www.tweaktown.com

NEW CONTENT (Motherboards) - ASRock P43 and P45 Motherboards Reviewed

QUOTE: “At the 2008 Computex event, Intel officially took the curtains off its 4 series PCI Express chipset range which is set to replace the original 3 series of chipsets. Intel’s 4 series not only brings Crossfire support to the mainstream, thanks to its ability to run two PCI Express x8 slots for GPUs, but it also adds PCI Express 2.0 to all of its 4 series of chipsets. That’s right, even the low-end of the 4 series gets a new PCI Express controller hub.

Today we have been sent two of the newest members of the 4 series family from ASRock, and they are loaded with features for the home user along with some nice overclocking for the enthusiast. Today we take a look at the ASRock P45R2000-WiFi and the P43R1600Twins-WiFi. How do they stack up? - Come and see with us.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1527/asrock_p43_and_p45_motherboards_reviewed/index.html

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The TweakTown Team
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InsideHW.com has posted review for Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R motherboard. You can read a clip from review:

“This time we have tested a middle-lower class motherboard but nevertheless an interesting model, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R. Gigabyte was always, at least when it’s comes to DS3 series of motherboards, known for simplicity and real good production quality. As far as this model is concerned, there is enough space around CPU socket, so you can very easily mount any cooler. EPS 12V connector is positioned in upper left corner while 24-pin ATX connector for supplying components on motherboard is placed in upper right corner…”

If you are interested to read some more, we present you link:

http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Motherboards/Gigabyte-GA_EP45_DS3R.html

Title:

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R @ InsideHW

TITLE: SilverStone SST-TS01B RFID External Drive Kit @ Benchmark Reviews

DESCRIPTION: External HDD Enclosures are plentiful and cheap these days.  It’s tough for a manufacturer to differentiate its products in the marketplace, and the competition on price is never-ending.  Silverstone Technology has introduced a new product that is completely unique in the market, with a security system that you won’t see anywhere else.  Instead of relying on passwords to allow access to the encrypted data on the HDD, the SilverStone SST-TS01B uses a small RFID “Key” to identify an authorized user.  This is not new technology, it’s in commercial use in other markets, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it used to unlock an encrypted HDD.

Benchmark Reviews has looked at some HDD enclosures in the past and they have all done what they were intended to do, but in my mind, there was something missing.  None of them really stood out, in terms of features or performance.  None of them said, “BUY ME” in no uncertain terms.  This one does.  Let’s see how it performs on the bench and in daily use.

ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207&Itemid=1

Title: Intel Opens Up About Larrabee @ Techgage

Link: http://techgage.com/article/intel_opens_up_about_larrabee

Quote: Intel today takes a portion of the veil off their upcoming Larrabee architecture, so we can better understand its implementation, how it differs from a typical GPU, why it benefits from taking the ‘many cores’ route, its performance scaling and of course, what else it has in store.

Title:
In Win Alpha360 Mini-Tower Case Review @ TheTechLounge

Quote:
“In Win is a king of case manufacturers. Their purview extends across the entire realm of beige, from the calm sea of beige to the shallow cliffs of beige, with the inoffensive beige plains between. I speak in jest. I have a soft spot in my heart for the oft-marginalized company, mainly because they made the first case I ever bought. It was, you know, off-white, a mini-tower affair that came with an adequate PSU. And even though I’ve since played with the full spectrum of cases, that first case I still have, and still use. Despite the color, it was way ahead of its time, both in layout and features. So I look at the Alpha360, boxed up in Engrish, and I think, people should know about these guys. These cases are awesome. I mean, these specific cases. The rest are all King Beige.”

Article URL:
http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/550/In+Win+Alpha360+MiniTower+Case/

Galaxy and Leadtek 9500 GT Tested and Compared

Asus certainly made a splash this year with their line of ultra-light, ultra-affordable Eee PC notebooks and they’ve been fleshing out the product line ever since with a wealth of new offerings, as the company continues to milk the product’s successful brand name recognition for all it’s worth.

Today marks the introduction of the $299 Asus Eee Box but we’ve had a unit in house for the better part of a month now.  Just what does $299 buy you in terms of capabilities and features, in an absolutely tiny footprint?  You’re about to find out.

Direct Link:

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Asus_Eee_Box_B202_Desktop_System/

And our video spotlight of the system in action:

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Asus_Eee_Box_B202_Desktop_System__Video_Spotlight/